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Moving Photos to Shared Photo Library

Am I right in saying that, to create a Shared Photo Library, I have to now reselect photos from the thousands in my Personal Library? Cant I just move an already curated, obviously shareable, Shared Album of photos?

Posted on Sep 17, 2023 2:05 AM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2023 3:03 AM

You can only move items from your iCloud Photos Library to the Shared iCloud Photos Library., but shared albums are stored in a different part of iCloud. To share Photos from a Shared Album you would first have to import them to your iCloud Photos Library. As the photos in your shared albums are just copies in a lesser quality with many metadata stripped, it would be much better to find the originals in your Photos Library to share them in the shared library.

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Sep 17, 2023 3:03 AM in response to ChrisGarside

You can only move items from your iCloud Photos Library to the Shared iCloud Photos Library., but shared albums are stored in a different part of iCloud. To share Photos from a Shared Album you would first have to import them to your iCloud Photos Library. As the photos in your shared albums are just copies in a lesser quality with many metadata stripped, it would be much better to find the originals in your Photos Library to share them in the shared library.

Moving Photos to Shared Photo Library

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